Creating Creatives

Welcome to our Thanksgiving episode.  Having an attitude of gratitude is scientifically proven to boost your creativity, your critical thinking and your happiness.  CLICK HERE to check out our activity of gratitude on the the Creating Creatives website.  Also check out Roy's new podcast, "The Fatherhood Experience" on any of your favorite podcasting platforms.

This episode is about our first impressions on homeschooling.  When the COVID-19 lockdowns were imposed, the kids started distance learning and Shelly had to practically learn and teach three different grades.  When the next school year started we decided to homeschool our kids.  We are five weeks in and here are our first impressions.

In this episode we talk about 6 things that we have done to add that little "extra" to make ordinary activities extraordinary.  We hope this inspires you to be creative and find other ways to add sugar to your kids' lives.

This podcast is about managing the inner critic in ourselves and in our children.  The critic is the voice inside that prevents you from starting or finishing something you've wanted to be or do.  Hit the road critic.  We're on to you.

Of the many ways we can incentivize our children, we gathere 7 of our favorites

Whether you have iPads, Android tablets or Kindle Fires, these devices can easily turn into a solution that makes things better in the short term but don't have much long term gains.  Here are seven things that we have been doing in our household to manage electronics time. 

What do we do when we're about to lose it with the kids? Here are some things that we have tried and have worked with our kids. The three main strategies are: 1. Craft a memory 2. Connect and redirect 3. Distract and conquer So far they've worked from infancy until now, and in some cases they've worked on adults as well :)

Everyone’s lives revolve around stories. It is through stories that we derive meaning from the events in our lives. Stories play a huge role in cognitive development and maturity in social interaction. From telling bedtime stories, to playing story games, storytelling is such a powerful tool for developing memory, for stimulating both the creative and the logical part of the brain and for spending quality time as a family. In this episode we discuss reasons why storytelling plays such a huge part in our family, and the important role it plays in being a creative.

Did your family ever play games at the dinner table when you were a kid? We did. And we’ve decided to carry that tradition into our home. It is a great way to bond, laugh, get to know each other and burn off some of those freshly consumed calories. In this episode we give you a list of some of the kids’ favorite dinner games. Seriously though, we play these games (and more) when we get together with the adults in our families as well. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Happy creating!

You’re about to start something, or are in the middle of something and the kids come and ask you to play with them. What do you do? Here are 4 reasons we play with the kids first.

Creativity is messy but it is part of the process. Whether you’re creating something from nothing or creating beauty from chaos, you need to be able to accept the difficulty that is part of the creative journey. How do we guide our little creatives through this journey as they learn to explore and innovate? How do we help them overcome fear, the enemy of creativity? Fear prevents you from starting, no less finishing. We hope you enjoy our conversation about mess.

A short introduction to who we are and why we’ve decided to create a podcast.